Articles

What Now?
Rev. Christine Robinson
Fifteen years ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had what the surgeon called a ‘strenuous surgery, was off work for nearly three months and debilitated for another six. But…it was OK. The results of the surgery had been the best possible, and this kind of cancer wasn’t supposed to come back. Read more »
Health
Rev. Christine Robinson
I was listening to a tape about health during my hospital stay, and it defined health as the ability to fully participate in one’s life. That stopped me. I had to rewind the tape and listen again. Read more »
Both Whole and Healing
Rev. Dr. Barbara Wells ten Hove
I was diagnosed with a chronic pain disorder when I was 35 years old. Though my symptoms can be traced back many years earlier, I had managed to, well, manage the pain for some time. Read more »
Boldly Co-Existing with Mental Illness
Rev. Adam Gerhardstein
In my senior year of college I had a psychotic manic episode and was hospitalized for two weeks. At 21 years old I received a lifelong companion, bipolar disorder. Read more »
Another Helping of Brokenness
Rev. Naomi King
I am prone to sudden jerky movements that are beyond my control. The other day, I was out on an errand. As happens so often when I go out, I experienced how we judge one another. And how sometimes we are both spectacularly loud and spectacularly wrong in our judgments. Read more »
Burnt Kabob
q4madmin
Last year, I admired wines.This year, I’m wandering inside the red world… Read more »
From Your Minister
Rev. Meg Riley
Recently, at one of CLF’s online worship services, we featured a guest minister, Teresa Ines Soto, who lives with cerebral palsy. Her story prompted several of our members to say that they also live with cerebral palsy, which caused me to reflect on the fact that I had not known that about them. Read more »
REsources for Living
Rev. Dr. Lynn Ungar
I don’t know about your family, but in my family healthy eating is an ongoing battle. Yes, I am the kind of parent who generally thinks that junk food is bad, and vegetables are good. Not surprisingly, my daughter is equally strong in her opinion that junk food is good, and vegetables are to be ...Read more »
Our Birthright of Healing
Contributing Writer
The tools and strategies of healing are so innate, so much a part of a common human birthright, that we believers in technology pay very little attention to them. But they have lost none of their power. Read more »